Simpler: are reified collective constructs like "community", "public" and "collective intention" real in a PKD sense? Ie do they go away when people stop believing in them, or are there parts that persist regardless of belief in them, that have no natural alternative locus?https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1179500375453257728 …
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"Market" is another one. You could think of all these as pure egregores, existing only as long as belief in them persists.
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Another way to ask the PKD-reality question is: what remains if all the *people* go away. Before computers, you'd only have material realities, but now with AIs you have the possibility of interesting perpetuation of robotic behaviors that might constitute egregores.
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We've two concepts for "community" and "public" -- one abstract, one concrete. The abstract versions are activated while reading the newspaper. The concrete community is who you have dinner parties with, and the concrete public is who you see on crowded beach days. Concrete = PKD
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